Shirley MacLaine is a well known actress, dancer, author and activist with a net worth of $25 million. Shirley MacLaine has earned her net worth through the many acting roles in films, television and on stage, as well as author of several books. She was born in Richmond, Virginia.

Shirley MacLean Beaty (born April 24, 1934), known professionally as Shirley MacLaine, is an American film and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist and author, well known for her beliefs in New Age spirituality and reincarnation. She has written a large number of autobiographical works, many dealing with her spiritual beliefs as well as her Hollywood career. She was nominated for an Academy Award five times before winning the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1983 for her role in Terms of Endearment. Her younger brother is Warren Beatty.Named after Shirley Temple, MacLaine was born Shirley MacLean Beaty in Richmond, Virginia. Her father, Ira Owens Beaty, was a professor of psychology, public school administrator, and real estate agent, and her mother, Kathlyn Corinne (n'ee MacLean), was a drama teacher originally from Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada; MacLaine's grandparents were also teachers. The family was devoutly Baptist. While she was still a child, MacLaine's father moved the family from Richmond to Norfolk, and then to Arlington, Virginia and Waverly, eventually taking a position at Arlington's Thomas Jefferson Junior High School.Shirley had very weak ankles as a child, so her mother decided to enroll her in ballet class. Strongly motivated by ballet, she never missed a class. In classical romantic pieces like "Romeo & Juliet" and "Sleeping Beauty," she always played the boys' roles, being the tallest in the class, due to the absence of males in the class. She got to play a substantial female role as the fairy godmother in "Cinderella." While warming up backstage, she broke her ankle, but proceeded to dance the role all the way through. MacLaine ultimately decided that professional ballet wasn't for her because she had grown too tall (being over 6 feet tall en pointe), wasn't good enough to make it a career and did not have the requisite "beautifully constructed feet" (high arches, high insteps). She also found ballet too limiting. After leaving b

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The play was adapted into a popular 1989 film starring Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Julia Roberts, Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis and Daryl Hannah. Thirty-eight women auditioned for the six roles in this play. Three of the six women cast members ...

(Robert Donat won that year for “Goodbye, Mr. Chips.”) Peter Sellers is remarkable in “Being There” at 8 p.m. Sunday. Shirley MacLaine and Oscar winner Melvyn Douglas co-star in the latter. (Sellers lost to Dustin Hoffman in “Kramer vs.

Two Hops for Sister Sara is a double IPA, its moniker a gleeful play on “Two Mules for Sister Sara,” the 1970 film co-starring Shirley MacLaine as a nun (sort of) who enlists the aid of a gunslinger (Eastwood). Then there’s Dirty Hoppy, a North Beach ...